Blood Sport

AUTHOR(S)

Wildman, Sarah

PUB. DATE

September 2001

SOURCE

New Republic;9/17/2001, Vol. 225 Issue 12, p14

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Comments on the practice among the U.S. politicians to employ their relatives on cabinet-level positions. Reference to California Governor Gray Davis's act of employing Chad Condit and Cadee Condit, children of Congressman Gary Condit, as his staff members; Appointments made by former and present U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush on the basis of family associations; Discussion of a kind of reciprocal nepotism which gives some individuals an unfair advantage in gaining public service positions.

ACCESSION #

5133189

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